If it were not for the fact that he was a billionaire, she would never have married him.
如果不是因为他是个亿万富翁,她不会嫁给他。
The doctor told him that he would have died if it had not been for his little girl.
医生告诉他,如果没有他的小女儿,他已经死了。
When Thomas had eaten all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries."
当托马斯吃完所有的樱桃后,他的父亲对他说:“我亲爱的儿子,如果你早点弯腰捡起那只马蹄铁,你就不必弯那么多次腰去捡樱桃了。”
Later,he said: "If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window."
VOA: special.2010.08.12
If I'm told "not so much for you," you'll suffer relative to him.
如果有人跟我说“你不怎么聪明”,你就会因为他而受到我冷落。
"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."
VOA: special.2009.03.09
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